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Tunisia's
Constituent Assembly has elected Moncef Marzouki, a former human rights
activist and opposition leader, as the country's president.
Mr Marzouki
comes from the secular centre-left Congress for the Republic party, which came
second in recent elections.
He spent
two decades in exile in Paris before returning to Tunisia in January days after
the toppling of former president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
His party
had previously been banned.
Mr
Marzouki, 66, was chosen by 153 out of 217 members of the Constituent Assembly.
The body
was elected in October to draw up a new constitution and appoint a transitional
government.
One of Mr
Marzouki's first tasks will be to formally designate Hamadi Jebali, from the
moderate Islamist Ennahda party, as prime minister.
Ennahda won
89 seats in October's election making it by far the largest party.
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